Eric, Thank you for the response, however it is not working for me and I do not know enough about jQuery to troubleshoot it.
On Jan 12, 4:15 pm, Eric Garside <gars...@gmail.com> wrote: > The easiest way I can see of doing it is: > > <div id="container"> > <div> > <input type="checkbox" value="1"/> > <div> > <input type="checkbox" value="1.1"> > <input type="checkbox" value="1.2"> > <div> > <input type="checkbox" value="1.3"> > </div> > <input type="checkbox" value="1.3"> > </div> > </div> > </div> > > $('#container :checkbox').change(function(){ > var jQ = $(this), nest = jQ.next('div'); > if (jQ.attr('checked') == 'checked') // Checked - Check and disable > all children. > nest.find(':checkbox').attr({checked: 'checked', disabled: > 'disabled'}); > else // Unchecked - Uncheck and enable all children > nest.find(':checkbox').attr({checked: '', disabled: 'disabled'}); > > }); > > It's untested, but I think it should work, and/or at least give you a > starting point for a way to achieve your goal. > > On Jan 12, 11:54 am, bmclaughlin <i...@bmclaughlindesigns.com> wrote: > > > I am hoping that someone has done this before. > > > I am after something like this:http://static.geewax.org/checktree/index.html > > I will explain why this fine example does not work for my instance > > below. > > > The behavior of the “United States” section in particular is what we > > are after. > > If a parent checkbox is checked, everything below that parent also > > gets checked. > > Unlike the example, there would not be a way to uncheck a child if the > > parent is selected. > > > There are multiple “levels” of the parent child relationship. > > The example of the United States shown above has 2 levels. > > In our case there can be up to 9 levels of depth. > > In this case if the ultimate parent is selected, all 9 levels (all > > parent and all children) would be selected. > > When any parent within the hierarchy is selected, their children > > become selected. > > > The system needs to work with checkboxes rather than images as shown > > in the example. > > This would mean that the checkboxes for the children of a selected > > parent are “disabled” thus not allowing a child to not be selected. > > > We are currently using the tree from “sample 3” from Bassistance > > (http://jquery.bassistance.de/treeview/demo/) to get that behavior. > > > If all this were not enough, the tree could contain 2,000 items that > > make up this hierarchy. > > So the less “building” the page has to do the better. All of the item > > will be loaded on the page when the page is rendered.